Search for Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande Associated with the GW170817 Neutron-star Merger

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Abe, K, Bronner, C, Hayato, Y, Ikeda, M, Iyogi, K, Kameda, J, Kato, Y, Kishimoto, Y, Marti, Ll, Miura, M et al (show 153 more authors) , Moriyama, S, Nakahata, M, Nakajima, Y, Nakano, Y, Nakayama, S, Orii, A, Pronost, G, Sekiya, H, Shiozawa, M, Sonoda, Y, Takeda, A, Takenaka, A, Tanaka, H, Tasaka, S, Yano, T, Akutsu, R, Kajita, T, Nishimura, Y, Okumura, K, Tsui, KM, Labarga, L, Fernandez, P, Blaszczyk, FDM, Kachulis, C, Kearns, E, Raaf, JL, Stone, JL, Sulak, LR, Berkman, S, Tobayama, S, Bian, J, Elnimr, M, Kropp, WR, Locke, S, Mine, S, Weatherly, P, Smy, MB, Sobel, HW, Takhistov, V, Ganezer, KS, Hill, J, Kim, JY, Lim, IT, Park, RG, Li, Z, O'Sullivan, E, Scholberg, K, Walter, CW, Gonin, M, Imber, J, Mueller, Th A, Ishizuka, T, Nakamura, T, Jang, JS, Choi, K, Learned, JG, Matsuno, S, Amey, J, Litchfield, RP, Ma, WY, Uchida, Y, Wascko, MO, Catanesi, MG, Intonti, RA, Radicioni, E, De Rosa, G, Ali, A, Collazuol, G, Ludovici, L, Cao, S, Friend, M, Hasegawa, T, Ishida, T, Ishii, T, Kobayashi, T, Nakadaira, T, Nakamura, K, Oyama, Y, Sakashita, K, Sekiguchi, T, Tsukamoto, T, Abe, Ke, Hasegawa, M, Suzuki, AT, Takeuchi, Y, Hayashino, T, Hirota, S, Jiang, M, Mori, M, Nakamura, Ke, Nakaya, T, Wendell, RA, Anthony, LHV, McCauley, N ORCID: 0000-0002-5982-5125, Pritchard, A, Fukuda, Y, Itow, Y, Murase, M, Muto, F, Mijakowski, P, Frankiewicz, K, Jung, CK, Li, X, Palomino, JL, Santucci, G, Viela, C, Wilking, MJ, Yanagisawa, C, Fukuda, D, Ishino, H, Ito, S, Kibayashi, A, Koshio, Y, Nagata, H, Sakuda, M, Xu, C, Kuno, Y, Wark, D, Di Lodovico, F, Richards, B, Sedgwick, S Molina, Tacik, R, Kim, SB, Cole, A, Thompson, L, Okazawa, H, Choi, Y, Ito, K, Nishijima, K, Koshiba, M, Suda, Y, Yokoyama, M, Calland, RG, Hartz, M, Martens, K, Murdoch, M, Quilain, B, Simpson, C, Suzuki, Y, Vagins, MR, Hamabe, D, Kuze, M, Okajima, Y, Yoshida, T, Ishitsuka, M, Martin, JF, Nantais, CM, Tanaka, HA, Towstego, T, Konaka, A, Chen, S, Wan, L and Minamino, A (2018) Search for Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande Associated with the GW170817 Neutron-star Merger ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 857 (1). l4-. ISSN 2041-8205, 2041-8213

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Abstract

We report the results of a neutrino search in Super-Kamiokande (SK) for coincident signals with the first detected gravitational wave (GW) produced by a binary neutron-star merger, GW170817, which was followed by a short gamma-ray burst, GRB170817A, and a kilonova/macronova. We searched for coincident neutrino events in the range from 3.5 MeV to ∼100 PeV, in a time window ±500 s around the gravitational wave detection time, as well as during a 14-day period after the detection. No significant neutrino signal was observed for either time window. We calculated 90% confidence level upper limits on the neutrino fluence for GW170817. From the upward-going-muon events in the energy region above 1.6 GeV, the neutrino fluence limit is () cm^-2 for muon neutrinos (muon antineutrinos), with an error range of ±5around the zenith angle of NGC4993, and the energy spectrum is under the assumption of an index of-2. The fluence limit for neutrino energies less than 100 MeV, for which the emission mechanism would be different than for higher-energy neutrinos, is also calculated. It is 6.6 × 10⁷ cm^-2 for anti-electron neutrinos under the assumption of a Fermi-Dirac spectrum with average energy of 20 MeV.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	8 pages, 4 figures
Uncontrolled Keywords:	astroparticle physics, gravitational waves, neutrinos
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	25 Jun 2018 06:31
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2026 11:50
DOI:	10.3847/2041-8213/aabaca
Open Access URL:	http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-821...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3022999
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